Artist
Augustus Pablo
Augustus Pablo appears 5 times in our Dub, 1976, Roots, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 5
- Appears on
- Dub, 1976, Roots, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- Year
- 1976
- Highest placing
- No. 1 in Dub
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Appears on
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
1976 · Yard Music
Ranked No. 1 in Dub
The record everyone means by dub. Pablo's melodica floats over a Jacob Miller rhythm that King Tubby keeps dismantling and rebuilding, and the space between the parts carries more weight than the parts do.
Also on 1976, Roots, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
1976 · Yard Music
Picked by 1976
The most-cited dub record ever made, and it is a melodica line and a mixing desk. Kingston in 1976 was inventing the studio-as-instrument while London was still arguing about guitars.
Also on Dub, Roots, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
1976 · Yard Music
Picked by Roots
The mixing desk becomes an instrument. Every record on this site built from the bass upward, with the vocal free to vanish for a bar, is working from the grammar King Tubby set here.
Also on Dub, 1976, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
1976 · Yard Music
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts
The starting point for the argument every record below repeats: a mix is a composition. The debt the others owe is as much to the economics that made a B-side worth rebuilding as to the technique itself.
Also on Dub, 1976, Roots, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
1976 · Yard Music
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
The record that proves an engineer is a composer. Everything on this list built from the bass upward is quoting it, usually without knowing.
Also on Dub, 1976, Roots, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts